Diesel Production Using Gas to liquid Technology

Abstract

A few years ago, the consumption of diesel fuel in Sudan increased, while the diesel production from our domestic refineries are insufficient to overcome the shortage of the local diesel demand, the project aims at devising a new method to produce in quantities that will cover the shortage in the market and deigned GTL unit. Gas to Liquid (GTL) is a technology in which natural gas is converting in to crude oil i.e. Mixture of complexes hydrocarbon, we can also use coal and biomass for feed stock. In the currently situation it is one of the alternative source of energy which can produce transportable fuel at economical rate an also environmentally clean fuel.The material and energy balance was calculated by HYSYS Software program, the size of Fisher Tropsch fixed bed reactor and the quantity of catalyst used were calculated, and produce sufficient quantities of diesel were obtained to cover local market demand.